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Using IG forex mt4 broker Using paid spider pro, USD/EUR on m15 When I use it on my demo account, it works and trades. When I try to initialize it on live account gives me: 2020.07.21 10:44:32.739 Spider Crazy Pro EURUSD,M15: zero divide in 'Spider Crazy Pro.mq4' (1251,36) Could there be a setting

Hi Guys, Just curious I see brokers has business accounts and not sure what people do with it. Do people run networks of accounts? If so, what do they use to run the mt4/mt5? Do they use vps or some special software to trade accounts without mt4/mt5 etc

trade.Buy( 0.02 , NULL ,PriceInfo[ 1 ].close,PriceInfo[ 1 ].low, 2 *PriceInfo[ 1 ].high-PriceInfo[ 9 ].low, NULL ); How come does this open multiple trades on a candle instead of only on the value of the previous low

i'd like to delete a pending order if the price moved 500 points without executing it Here's my attempt CTrade trade; MqlRates pricedata []; ArraySetAsSeries(pricedata,true); int data =CopyRates(Symbol(),Period(),0,550,pricedata); for ( int i = OrdersTotal () - 1 ; i >= 0 ; i-- ) { ulong

Hi, request = { "action": mt5.ORDER_TYPE_CLOSE_BY, "symbol": 'USDEUR', "volume": 2, 'position': 123456, 'position_by':???, # "price": 0.9, "sl":0.9, } } result =

Hello, I've started programming in MQL5 (as hobby so far), once in college and in my first job I programmed heavily in C ++, but it was over 20 years ago :) I have such a issue, probably I have no enough knowledge at yet. After the setup occurs, I place three orders, which let's assume they

I been testing several ts ea but most of the time, they do not move to the trailing start, and I do not know why. Does it conflict with other ea but they do not have ts? The bear minimum of my broker ts is 15 but many ea I used not work move it to the starting. I even take account of the spread in

Hi, I have read this topic https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/690#NVidia that deals with using OPENCL to use gpu for computations , However , it has been written in 2013 , so i guess supported hardware is not up to date, My graphic card is a RTX 2060 , i have downloaded latest drivers but mt5 do not

I have an EA in the market for sale. I want to offer it for rent too. But can't seem to find how to do that. I see other EAs in the market that are offered for sale and for rent as well. How do i achieve that? Does the EA has to pass certain amount of purchases for example for it to allow me to

Hello All, I`m a new member and I`m busy creating an EA, that is able to determine the slope of the EMA in between the opening and the closing of a candle /bar. To do so, I was thinking to just subtract both EMA`s values. After doing some research, I`m wondering if it is even possible, to link a

What kind of data should I be putting in the trade.buy.volume property? Is this the number of shares I wish to buy? In some of the MT5 code I see values like 0.10 but I don't know what that means. Thank you

Hey guys, I have been a longtime lurker here. I have an EA that trades (open/close/modify) on a demo and real account, but when I try to run a backtest on it ,it gives the following error : Initialization Failed (1). The file is ex4 and i do not have the access to the source code. Does anyone has an

Hello, I have a thought that blocks my heart. like I have an Buy Order here, then I want to add a Horizontal Line to modify the Buy Order earlier. I want my Buy Order to close the order if the length of my Order Buy has reached 5 minutes, and crossed the line that I made with the condition that when

Hi, I recently uploaded a Expert Advisor and I changed the code on my local copy now, I want to know the original code that was uploaded to VPS. Can someone please help? Is there a way to export you expert advisor or something

I'm learning how to program with the MQL5 language and I'm running lots of strategy tests with my EAs, for long periods of data it takes a lot of time even with multiple computers in local farm. I was wondering if there was a way to automate or queue multiple tests so I could set up the queue and

An EA that will not allow you to open trades for a day if you lose 3% of your account for that day. The EA prevents you from overtrading.It will block you from taking any trade till the next day. If you have an amount that you can't lose more than that in a week ,it blocks you from trading till next

Hi all, I have a sample EA with the following OnTick() logic getting a Custom (or any build in indicator like iMA(..) ) with PERIOD_D1. However, running Strategy Tester with Period set to "Daily" vs "M1" or other periods gives DIFFERENT Trading Backtest results. (I somehow felt that we should stick

i`m having some trouble with a piece of code for an EA after changing the original code generated by MetaEditor the tester kept giving error on the periods, so i changed the code to: //--- Creating filter CSignalMACD CSignalMACD *filter1= new CSignalMACD; if (filter1== NULL ) { //---

I found this Expert in Codebase ( https://www.mql5.com/en/code/11649 ). The author has not been available since 2019. I love the expert for all its features: works on all active charts from a single chart; it is able to treat each chart separately; and very simple. The only set back is it does not

On my brokers trading account I have a 50% stop out call, meaning, that when my DD will reach 50% of my balance the trade will be closed with 50% account loss. When I am back testing Expert Advisors in my meta trader I can see a position called Equity Drawdown Relative. QUESTION: if my Equity

Good night people, I am developing a robot to read the last closing value of many assets. Test to obtain or close 1000 different assets, but the MT5 is very slow and uses 100% of the CPU. Even stopping or robot, the MT5 continues to allocate 100% of the CPU. If you run a test with 200 assets, it

How to read value of the function CheckPatternAllBullish() in class CCandlePattern ?I want to read it inside in void OnTick()// Print(fican.CheckPatternAllBullish());Error is invalid pointer access in 'candlepatterns.mqh' (162,20)Thanks...

EXPERT ADVISOR IDEA USING FRACTALS This idea i a very simple idea which needs someone who understands coding EA's to a degree. The EA Uses Fractals and thats it. The Only Difference is that it doesnt trade tops and bottoms but trades every candle after the Fractal has painted. Example. Price is

Hi guys. So ive been trying to get the total loss/profits of my executed trade and i don't even know how to go about it. I thought i could modify this code. I got it from the mql5 codebase but it only gives the total loss/profit for pips. I need the total loss/pips in dollars

I'd been currently been testing ea to trade, but I do not want to open new one after passing certain price. Is there an ea that does not affect my other ea except stop opening new trade after certain price? Or maybe stop auto-trading ea in certain chart

Hello, maybe someone can help me with extraction of data from ZigZag indicator ? I tried this, and it gives Handle=10, bf=-1. zig=0, zag=0. double array[]; //data array double bf;

The essence of the EA is to set certain combinations of candles. The rules are: a bullish candle means "1", a bearish candle means "0". So, it is possible to search for such combinations of candlesticks simply by specifying "101": So far the problem is in coding the representation of combinations -

EA may have several market orders open at any time, each order has its own indicator set stoploss value. To trail the same fixed distance from market for an order with SL = 10pips, and one with SL = 150pips is just "stupid". Trailing must be done proportional to the order's initial SL. Problem is

Please advise me how to use 2 Average True Range indicators for scalping on short timeframes. Suggrstions welcome. Thankyou

I've been looking for a few hours now but I cannot find documentation on Selection of Input Parameters when testing my EA. See attachment. Where can I read about these individual settings so I can understand if I need to use them in my testing? Thank you